> If you're running ken's fileserver, I trust that you're compiling your > own kernels. > > All you have to add to cpu kernels from sources to reinstate IL are > the current /sys/src/9/ip/il.c and add "il" to the kernel > configuration files (or keep your current ones). replica/pull will > remove il.c once, but thereafter pull should leave it alone (if it > doesn't, I'll manually remove il.c from plan9.db on sources, which > will force pull to leave it alone). Likewise for /sys/src/fs (if > that's the `kernel from sources' you're referring to).
we run kernels directly from sources on quite a number of machines. one advantage of this is that if there's a problem with the kernel, it's clear that local modifications are not to blame. i can't see the harm in leaving il.c in the kernel. it shouldn't require much maintence at all. i volunteer to do any work required to keep it up-to-date. - erik
